recipes


  • Easy Chicken Thighs With Big Flavor

    Right off the bat, I have to tell you diehard chicken breast folks a hard truth: this will not work with chicken breasts. Thighs or drumsticks only, lovelies. This method – because it’s not a recipe, per se – only works by using the natural fat in the thigh meat, and breasts just don’t have…


  • What We’re Drinking (When We’re Not *Drinking*)

    For those of us who are GenX women (ahem…we have hit perimenopause or menopause), we’ve likely noticed that we don’t metabolize alcohol like the days of Boone’s Farm and Bon Jovi. It just doesn’t work so great in our bodies anymore: it jacks up our sleep, and actually, if we rely on that glass of…


  • Buttery Homemade Biscuits, No Rolling Pin Required

    Right off the bat, you need to know that this is not my original recipe. It’s OLD. I got it from I Am Baker, but she says she got it from the Simply Texas Butter Swim Biscuits recipe. But it’s gone cold and snowy (AGAIN) today, and I woke up planning these in my head,…


  • The GF pasta swap you didn’t know you needed (psst, it’s polenta)

    When I first started dating my husband, I made polenta with bolognese one night. He carefully asked me, “pole…what now? It’s delicious, I’ve just never had this before.” Polenta is an Italian dish made of coursely ground corn meal cooked in broth or milk, and it’s used in place of pasta. It makes a terrific…


  • Cozy Low Carb Taco Boats

    Easy, cozy, delicious spaghetti squash taco bowls – get dinner on the table, stat!